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Coal Carriers: The Lightbulb Moment

DON’T BE DEFERENT. Important words of advice I received at a encoding solution that could beam real-time 4K video signals from critical juncture in my career. ose words, as plain and un-minced as the banks of the ames to my studio in Brooklyn. For more than a they were, taught me a great deal about commanding space, building my month, I would spend several hours each day connected remotely to the own table, and grounding myself with an affirmation that I belong. In artwork, trying out sequences and fine-tuning the results. I was amazed the world of culture, one that is rampant with hierarchy and historical that we were able to accomplish as much as we did. e lesson here is exclusion, hearing that directive was my paradigm shift. At every that constraints lead to new and exciting ways of being creative that we level of personal growth in our journeys, we have the choice between can build into our process moving forward. fearfulness and expansion. ose three words have been the warm LEO VILLAREAL glowing light in the distance, guiding me along the path toward the Mr. Villareal is an artist in New York. best version of my ever-evolving self. JESSICA BELL BROWN ART HAS LLMNATED my life. Gazing at an Alma omas painting, Ms. Brown is the associate curator of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. resting in a James Turrell Skyspace, walking around a Ruth Asawa sculpture—these are all moments that stir my soul, that inspire me WHEN WAS sitting in the middle of Joshua Tree during sunset to learn more about the artists, their times, their lives. Art provides thinking about Lucid Stead, or watching the Pacific Ocean meld with a glimpse into the world through the eyes of the artists creating it, the sky on the horizon line, or thinking about 1/4 Mile Arc in Laguna offering new perspectives and empathy as we learn their stories. It’s Beach, I thought: How can I ever make anything more beautiful than that spark that motivated me to found Crystal Bridges Museum of this? rough the use of reflection, I was able to use that existing American Art and the Art Bridges Foundation, to provide access to sublime beauty as artistic material within my work—the sunset, the illuminating experiences for all. ALICE WALTON ocean, and the shifting atmosphere became ever-changing functional Ms. Walton is a philanthropist in Bentonville, Arkansas. materials that I could interact with. PHILLIP K. SMITH, III WAS CONV NCED I wanted to leave Pittsburgh for Seattle after Mr. Smith is an artist in Palm Springs, California. college. I would work at the Seattle Art Museum and go to concerts at night. To help facilitate my dream, my father introduced me to a N THE after agreeing to edit a new academic journal on corporate recruiter. Mr. Donnelly was eccentric. He had mad energy, anthrozoology (Anthrozoos), a colleague introduced me to a 1964 paper referred to himself as the “Warrior King,” moved between subjects with by anthropologist Edmund Leach. Leach wrote about swear words lightning speed, and forced me to make decisions I wasn’t prepared to and noted that there are basically three categories of words we use make, including a move to Seattle. I can’t imagine my life without him. when swearing—profanities (about God), obscenities (about sex), and I wouldn’t have moved from Pittsburgh to Washington, DC, found the animal terms. He said it did not take much to understand why we use best job ever at FAPE, and be working with some of our country’s most profanities and obscenities but that animal terms were a real puzzle extraordinary artists. JENNIFER ANN DUNCAN and then he offered his thoughts on the matter. His analysis has been a Ms. Duncan is director of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies in Washington, DC. central feature of my understanding of human-animal interactions ever since, that the only consistency in the way humans think about animals FROM THE EARL EST times, the tribes had someone to carry the coal is inconsistency. ANDREW ROWAN from one location to the next in order to light the fire that allowed A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Rowan is an animal advocate in Washington DC. the community to thrive. Today, the carriers of the coal are our artists, musicians, writers, and creatives. In the last year, when we needed THE CHALLENGES PRESENTED last year have resulted in new ways connections and courage the most, I saw just how essential these many of working I never thought possible. My art is about manifesting individuals are. Whether the community is gathered around a screen or digitally created light sequences as sculpture in the physical world. It’s in-person, these coal carriers are vital voices. eir work gathered our tribe very important that I am able to spend time in-person with my work, and gave us a chance to breathe together and be in the moment. I had the adjusting subtle parameters such as tempo and brightness. I never full realization that without these creatives—who allow us to make sense thought I would be able to do this work remotely. Because I could not of the world, connect to one another, and share our journeys—our path travel, and we were working toward launching phase two of Illuminated would be dark and lonely, and the way would be perilous. e arts lead and River in London, we had to develop a new workflow. We engaged a light the way for us all. DEANA M C CLOUD very talented videographer with a great camera. We then found a video Ms. McCloud is director of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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EBONY MAN DALLAS The Way You Frame t (2020) The works of Ebony man Dallas, along with Ron Tarver, are featured in the exhibition We Believed in the Sun, currently on view through August 9, 2021, at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City. ARTDESK 01 Bridget Bardo (2009) Photograph by Nigel Treblin

A Frontal Passage (1994) Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art

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Light On Bending space and time with James Turrell on the eve of a new Colorado Skyspace TED THA TED The artist with his work, Raemar (1969)

or millennia, humankind has looked up to the sky in fascination. Ancient civilizations built pyramids and stone observatories to track astronomical events, combining farchitecture, sculpture, and light to reveal celestial patterns and bring the cosmos down to earth. More recent architects of the Gothic period raised the ceilings of cathedrals higher and higher in their eorts to touch the heavens and ll their houses of worship with divine light. James Turrell continues this primordial interest in the spiritual and sublime qualities of light. A proponent of the Light and Space movement, he has spent his career shaping light through architectural and sculptural interventions that challenge the limits of human perception and bring the sky to our terrestrial space. Over the past ve decades, Turrell has expanded his art-making into twenty- two typologies, or series, spanning a variety of forms and ranging in scale from the monumental to the intimate. He is perhaps best known for his Skyspace series— constructed chambers each with a carefully cut and perfectly sharp rectilinear or elliptical aperture in the ceiling. These works can be singular constructions, built to the artist’s specications, or made within existing spaces modied by Turrell, oen combining natural light with carefully modulated articial light that together heighten perceptions of even the most minute changes in the atmosphere. An experience in a Skyspace is unique to that moment in time, as each is responsive to and interacting with environmental conditions and atmospheric uctuations. Quiet and contemplative, Turrell’s Skyspaces are portals to the sky and provide the sensation of being one with the universe. Turrell’s largest Skyspace is also his longest running and most ambitious project. Begun in 1977, Roden Crater is a massive earthwork constructed within the eponymous volcanic cinder cone in the Painted Desert region of northern Arizona. Turrell has transformed the extinct volcano into a monumental, naked- eye observatory through a series of tunnels and apertures carved into the earth and opening to skies that—at an elevation of more than 5,000 feet—seem close enough to touch. The work is a masterpiece combining physical sciences with art and architecture. Built to last for hundreds of years to come, Roden Crater joins the permanence of geologic time with the ethereality of light and nds its place among the great monuments of civilization. Construction of the observatory continues, during which time it is closed to the public, however the basic principles of Roden Crater are present in each of his works to date. The artist’s legacy goes beyond his physical artworks—Turrell has changed the way we look at the sky and allowed us to view the world with renewed awe and wonderment.

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Dr. Arnold is the assistant curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. Construction for the rst Skyspace in Colorado is underway in Green Mountain Falls. Tucked into a butte among an aspen RRELL grove, this Skyspace is also the rst to be constructed on the side of a mountain. A new trail will guide visitors on an easy hike directly to the permanent installation. e piece is owned by the Historic Green Mountain Falls Foundation and will open in fall 2021. greenboxarts.org Beside Myself (2017) Photograph by Karsten Moran

ARTDESK 03 © JAMES T JAMES © ARTWORKS ALL ALL kyspaces* in the United States

Title To Be Determined (2021), Red Butte, Gallery, Los Angeles, California Dividing the Light (2007), Benton Museum of Knight Rise (2001), Scottsdale Museum of Green Mountain Falls, Colorado Twilight Epiphany (2012), Rice University, Art, Pomona College, Claremont, California Contemporary Art, Arizona C.A.V.U. (2021), Massachusetts Museum Houston, Texas Hard Scrabble Sky (2005), University of One Accord (2001), Live Oak Friends of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Air Apparent (2012), Arizona State Illinois at Chicago Meeting House, Houston, Texas Massachusetts University, Tempe Sky Pesher (2005), Walker Art Center, Blue Pesher (1999), Cheekwood Estate and The Color Inside (2013), University of Joseph’s Coat (2011), The John & Mable Minneapolis, Minnesota Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee Texas at Austin Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida Three Gems (2005), de Young Museum, Meeting (1980), MoMA PS1, New York, Greet the Light (2013), Chestnut Hill The Way of Color (2009), Crystal Bridges San Francisco, California New York Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Light Reign (2003), Henry Art Gallery, La Brea Sky (2013), Kayne Grin Corcoran Arkansas University of Washington, Seattle *Open to the public

A rendering of the upcoming Skyspace in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

Roden Crater (1974) Cat Cairn (1974) Bridget Bardo (2009) 04 ARTDESK Photograph by Bonnie Jo Mount Photograph by Florian Holzherr Photograph by Nigel Treblin SU MMER

James Turrell is a visual artist who has incorporated light and space in his work for more than fifty years. Born May 6, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, Turrell is best known for his Skyspace installations, more than eighty around the world. Turrell is also a pilot with LI GHTNI NG I N A BOTTLE 12,000-plus hours in the sky. Turrell has received awards in architecture and art, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1974), National Turrell in Outsight Insight (2011) near Stockholm Medal of Arts (2013), and Jefferson Medal in Architecture (2002). LARS TUNBJÖRK LARS

Stone Sky (2005) ARTDESK 05 Photograph by Florian Holzherr SUMMER 2021

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BEST BET MELSSA JACOBS National Museum Women n Scarves (2021) of African American Woman Wearing Cape (2021) History and Culture WHO’S O T T ArtNow in Washington, DC Wayne LaPierre A NEW CHANGE OF PACE FOR AN OLD FAVORTE

ArtNow began as an annual exhibition of Oklahoma artists, but this summer it will debut as a biennial at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. Organized by independent curator Helen Opper, the exhibition and fundraiser will feature twenty-seven artists with active studio practices in Oklahoma, including Hoesy Corona, Melissa Jacobs, Edward Grady, Karam, Carrie Kouts, Kyle Larson, Tyra Shackleford, Scott Vo, Simphiwe Mbunyuza, and XVALA. Also expect a special exhibition of Bert Seabourn’s work, in recognition of his artistic contributions to the state. —KELLY ROGERS

ArtNow 2021 will be on view July 29 through September 13 at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. oklahomacontemporary.org

MELSSA JACOBS ARTDESK 07 Woman With Vase (2020) KEITH HARING: Grace House Mural MCA Denver / Denver, Colorado

EXHIBITION HAPPENINGS In the 1980s, Keith Haring painted a series of NEW AND NOW N ART & PERFORMANCE | BY ALL SON MEER joyous characters dancing up the stairwell at the @ALLSONCMEER Grace House youth center in Manhattan. e work was meant to uplift the spirits of at-risk teens who lived in the center. Decades later, THE ART PRESERVE Grace House closed and the mural was carefully John Michael Kohler Arts Center / Sheboygan, removed in 2019, with the thirteen panels now Wisconsin on view to the public for the fi rst time at MCA Denver. Each panel features a diff erent fi gure, ART PARK including familiar Haring motifs like the radiant From the glittering home of Loy Bowlin—the baby and barking dog, along with traces of their Original Rhinestone Cowboy—to the “Healing years in the youth center, from a fi re extinguisher Machine” made in a Nebraska shed from scrap sticker to stray graffi ti. e exhibition positions everyday handcrafted objects like blankets. Each/ metal, foil, and lights by Emery Blagdon, the these large-scale fi gures, made with Haring’s Other joins these two socially-engaged Indigenous John Michael Kohler Arts Center has acquired distinctive bold lines, within the context of his artists for the fi rst time to examine how they and protected vernacular art environments. Now brief but prolifi c career where he used public art to each use collaborative art-making. As part of the it’s opening the Art Preserve, the world’s fi rst bring joy to unexpected places. rough August 22, exhibition, the artists asked the public to add their venue dedicated to them. Set on thirty-eight 2021. mcadenver.org own hand to a new monumental piece by sending bucolic acres of forests and meadows, the preserve in folded fabric with individualized stitching, features examples of environments around the EACH/OTHER: Marie Watt and Cannupa forming a tactile bond even while people are world, including sculptures from the Chandigarh, Hanska Luger distanced during the pandemic. rough August India, garden by Nek Chand and a recreation of Denver Art Museum / Denver, Colorado 22, 2021. denverartmuseum.org the New York loft of fi ber artist Lenore Tawney. EXHIBITION Artist archives, a library, and an education area FROM THE LIMITATIONS OF NOW further the growing study of self-taught, folk, and Cannupa Hanska Luger worked with hundreds Philbrook Museum of Art / Tulsa, Oklahoma outsider artists. Opening June 26, 2021. of people across North America to create an EXHIBITION jmkac.org installation of more than 4,000 clay beads to remember missing and murdered Indigenous Marking the centennial of the Tulsa Race OPENING OF A PUBLIC SKYSPACE ALICE NEEL: People Come First women, girls, and LGBTQ+ people; Marie Watt Massacre, in which a White mob destroyed the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art / Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York, New organizes sewing circles to bring people into Greenwood district and murdered its Black North Adams, Massachusetts York dialogues around making and the signifi cance of residents, the Philbrook is examining this local

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A forty-foot-tall concrete water tank is now an Alice Neel stated in 1950 that for her, “people aperture to the sky. James Turrell has transformed come fi rst” and in her art, she strived to “assert an abandoned factory relic into his latest, and the dignity and eternal importance of the human largest, freestanding circular observatory named being.” e longtime New Yorker, who died C.A.V.U. MASS MoCA, located in a former in 1984, did this in captivating portraits that textile complex, now has a work from each of the refl ected the beautiful diversity of her city, from American artist’s six decades of work exploring celebrated artists and activists to neighborhood his preferred medium: light. He began his friends and family members. is major Skyspace series in 1974 to focus perception on the retrospective highlights not just the portraits and sky and its minute-by-minute changes of color cityscapes that portrayed in dynamic color and and light. Complementing this new immersive line the life around her but also her engagement experience, MASS MoCA will exhibit Turrell’s with social justice and representation. Whether ceramic work in Lapsed Quaker Ware to examine unfl inching depictions of nude pregnant women how his upbringing as a Quaker has impacted his or portrayals of same-sex couples, she painted contemplative art. rough October 30, 2022. each person with empathy and honesty. rough massmoca.org August 1, 2021. metmuseum.org he BOOK REPORT

Drama: David Rockwell David Art: The Whole Story Stephen The Art Museum in Modern Liam Wong: TO:KY:OO / $50 The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Rockwell with Bruce Mau / $60 Farthing and Richard Cork / $30 Times Charles Saumarez Smith / $40 Award-winning graphic designer, game A Photographic History Karlos K. David Rockwell leads somewhat of a This book is an extensive play-by- Veteran museum director Charles developer, and photographer Liam Hill and Kevin Matthews / $35 double life. The superstar architect has play of every period and era of art. Saumarez Smith (formerly of the United Wong purchased his rst DSLR camera One hundred years ago, thousands of designed notable buildings such as The Extremely informative and expansive, Kingdom’s National Portrait Gallery, in 2015 and quickly made a name for White people and state authorities Shed in New York, Nobu restaurants the text coupled with illustrations National Gallery, and Royal Academy) himself with his stunning photography. attacked the African American Green- worldwide, and the National Center for and images creates a highly detailed takes a look at the past, present, and fu- Not only is this beautiful book packed wood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta—but and educational book—while re- ture of art institutions around the world with images from Japan that seem 300 people and injuring thousands he is also a production set designer maining easy-to-read. A team of art and asks the question, “Why do we otherworldly, Wong brings the reader more. Today, Black Wall Street has been behind hit Broadway musicals like historians, curators, and artists show visit an art museum?” Full of personal into his process sharing valuable tips rebuilt and continues to be revived. This Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hairspray, and the reader everything from Seurat’s anecdotes and smart commentary from on scene-setting, composition, and book recounts the events with nearly The Rocky Horror Show. All of it is tied use of color theory to an explanation the author, this book has a surprisingly post-production methods. 200 photographs—some never pub- together in this celebratory book. of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive broad appeal to art enthusiasts and lished until now—and oral histories. moment” in photography. academics alike.

08 ARTDESK of printmaking, artists like Elizabeth Catlett, to memories, people, and places in his life. rough Grace Hartigan, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles October 10, 2021. themodern.org White, and countless others explored lithographs, woodcuts, intaglio prints, and other techniques that THE WINDMILL PROJECT were pivotal to the twentieth-century “graphics Ent Center for the Arts / Colorado Springs, boom” of the United States. rough September 5, Colorado 2021. dia.org INSTALLATION

SEAN SCULLY: The Shape of Ideas On breezy evenings, the hillside behind the Ent Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth / Fort Worth, Center for the Arts at the University of Colorado Texas at Colorado Springs (UCCS) illuminates with 2,000 lights. Each is on an eight-foot- EXHIBITION tall windmill with LEDs visualizing the According to the New York Times, one of the movement of the air. e large-scale installation country’s leading abstract artists once introduced is by Patrick Marold who often makes public himself at the MoMA desk by declaring: “Sean sculptures designed to create experiences with history of racial violence in the greater context of DREAM MONUMENTS: Drawing in the Scully’s my name, painting stripes is my game.” light. His work Shadow Array at the Denver the United States and looking ahead to a better 1960s and 1970s While there’s much more to the practice of the International Airport involves the shifting future. From the Limitations of Now concentrates Menil Collection / Houston, Texas Irish-American painter, it is those lines with their shadows of more than 200 spruce logs. While on recent work by artists including Lex Brown, imperfect edges and blocks of expressive colors that e Windmill Project is on the UCCS campus EXHIBITION Lonnie Holley, Troy Michie, and Kameelah Janan have defi ned his infl uential art, going back to the for a year, it is part of the ongoing interactive art Rasheed alongside impactful twentieth-century As the United States has a national reckoning 1970s when they led the way from minimalism to initiative Art WithOut Limits and e Space(s) pieces like Faith Ringgold’s 1972 United States of over what a monument should look like and who an emotionally charged abstraction. is touring Between, a collaboration with the University Attica that maps the violent suppression of those it should lionize, the Menil Drawing Institute at retrospective brings together both paintings and of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery and outdoor who have resisted oppression. Complementing the Menil Collection looks back at an era when works on paper to examine his almost fi ve decades artworks between Colorado Springs and Denver. the exhibition is Views of Greenwood with images artists realized fantastic monuments on paper. of non-representational compositions that respond rough October 2021. entcenterforthearts.org by Oklahoma photographers Don ompson, Dream Monuments includes studies, drawings, and Gaylord Oscar Herron, and Eyakem Gulilat, proposals such as Claes Oldenburg’s absurdist examining loss and resilience in the neighborhood. sketches turning New York’s Park Avenue rough September 5, 2021. philbrook.org into a bowling lane for a mammoth green ball and Robert Smithson’s gargantuan map of the THE GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS Cambrian world with sulfur and tar. As they PODCAST questioned the limitations of the monument in these impossible ideas, they confronted what PODCAST it meant to make something permanent and When art historian Linda Nochlin asked in 1971, transform the landscape with an artistic vision. “Why have there been no great women artists?,” rough September 19, 2021. menil.org she was not questioning the talent of women but how the art world and art history had neglected ROBERT BLACKBURN & MODERN them. e Great Women Artists Podcast is now AMERICAN PRINTMAKING elevating the voices of women artists and art Detroit Institute of Arts / Detroit, Michigan historians. Launched in 2015 by Katy Hessel of EXHIBITION the popular @thegreatwomenartists Instagram account, the conversations focus on historical and Just over a century after he was born to Jamaican contemporary artists, including recent interviews immigrants, the Harlem-raised Robert Blackburn with Shirin Neshat, Cornelia Parker, Howardena is getting a retrospective that surveys how he Pindell, and Deborah Roberts. Curators and led the way in American printmaking across a historians consider the practices and impact of six-decade career. Central to his practice as an women artists, such as art historian Jo Applin on artist as well as a teacher was the printmaking the bristling femininity of Louise Bourgeois and workshop he opened in 1947 as a place where any curator Letizia Treves on seventeenth-century artist, no matter their skill set or experience, could artist Artemisia Gentileschi who broke the create. In this collaborative space, energized by baroque glass ceiling. thegreatwomenartists.com Blackburn’s enthusiasm for sharing the processes he BOOK REPORT By ALANA RUIZ DE LA PEÑA | Photography by STEVEN WALKER

Hilma af Klint: The Paintings for Unfolding Matthew Shlian / $60 No Modernism Without New Psychedelia Leif Podhajsky Can Draw Peng / $20 the Temple 1906–1915 Foreword In our rapidly evolving modern world Lesbians Diana Souhami / $16 / $45 Providing the building blocks to create by Kurt Almqvist / $50 where stationery has gone the way of English writer Diana Souhami weaves Leif Podhajsky is best known for his your next great sketch, I Can Draw is a The second book of a seven-volume email and currency is relegated to cred- the unique story about a group of gay album cover work with bands such as way to £ ex and stretch your creative mus- set, this installment chronicles Hilma it cards and Venmo, we o¢ en neglect women in prewar Paris, including Tame Impala, Kylie Minogue, Lykke Li, cles by practicing simple drawings. This af Klint’s 193 colorful and cosmic paper —especially as an art form. Mat- Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, and and Of Monsters and Men. Podhajsky inspirational and o¢ en funny step-by- abstract paintings. The Swedish painter thew Shlian’s marvelous folding (and Natalie Barney. Forging a community is an Australian graphic designer, step instills con dence in novice artists, requested that her work be shown in unfolding) work is a delightful surprise and forming relationships with the art director, and synesthete (for and re nes techniques in those more “spiraling architectural structure.” More and peek into an ancient art form some- movers and shakers eventually would him, sounds appear as colors). New experienced. The workbook is strangely than 100 years later, in 2018, Klint’s times overlooked. Shlian, an artist and become the groundbreaking modernist Psychedelia is a chronicle of his work magnetic—the drawings are easy to pick paintings were shown in-the-round at paper engineer, has collaborated with movement—when art and literature in the music industry and previously up but challenging enough to take up the her retrospective in the Guggenheim design giants such as Apple, SUPREME, tore away from the cultural traditions unpublished artwork. better part of your lunch break. Museum in New York. and Herman Miller. of the early twentieth century.

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German photographer Andreas Gefeller captures his surroundings in striking detail and imaginative abstraction. His 2019 series, Clouds, creates painterly compositions from various CLOUD COVER cloud formations. With few edits to the original photograph, Gefeller presents these everyday Andreas Gefeller takes to the skies. weather phenomenons almost entirely as they appeared in the sky that day, highlighting the awe-inspiring and ominous inner workings of our atmosphere. Zoomed in to the billowy

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shapes, we see a thunderstorm brewing. Zoomed out, it is revealed that some of these clouds Works from Gefeller’s 2019 Clouds are in fact fabricated, as they escape from an industrial chimney. “Biblical motifs or evidence series, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: of man-made global warming?” Gefeller asks. “ e Clouds series is both: a document of , , , 046 human creativity and relentless exploitation.” —KELLY ROGERS

ARTDESK 11 Irby Pace sees expansive landscapes and void scenery as the perfect backdrop to his photographic practice. Texas-born and educated, Pace is the ﬁrst artist in residence in Green Smoke Signals Box’s 2021 lineup, bringing his interests in nature, photography, and artistic experience to Colorado. “e town of Green Mountain Falls is incredibly inspirational,” Pace says. “e ARTST RBY PACE OF ALABAMA landscape was vastly diﬀerent from what I am used to with a variety of foliage.” Drawing

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inspiration from nineteenth-century scientist and photographer Étienne-Jules Marey, the from sunshine and wind to nearby objects that the smoke could interact with. In a location Troy University professor of photography uses smoke as a subject to study movement over with exceptional natural beauty of its own, Pace says the time to make work without space and time. He releases clouds of colorful smoke into the air and records these mystic restriction or obstruction opened his creative floodgates. “My time here has been one of the interventions as they transform and eventually dissipate, leaving no trace behind except on most exquisite, tranquil, and creative experiences that I’ve ever had.” film. e state of the environment offers all kinds of possibilities for the final photographs, —KELLY ROGERS IRBY PACE Paint Mines (2021)

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Celebrated dancer Silas Farley, recently retired from the New York City Ballet, walks us through a springtime class in Texas. is summer, Farley will choreograph a new work with twelve dancers from American Ballet eatre—the storied company will be the 2021 summer artist-in-residence at Green Box in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. Here, deep in the heart of Dallas, Farley brings a bite of the Big Apple.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVEN V SNEA

14 ARTDESK SLAS FARLEY served as the 2020-21 ballet artist-in-residence for the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Farley danced with the New York City Ballet from 2013 until 2020, when he retired from performance to pursue a leadership role in the world of dance. Now, he is the incoming dean of the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute at the Colburn School in Los Angeles.

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1 “Working with Matthew Bejarano 2 “Shaping Kiera Mays’ foot in 3 “It’s important to keep the wrist 4 “Much of my teaching on creating a moment of alert battement tendu” lied. Here, the dancer is working is inuenced by George stillness in h position” on crossing her right leg behind Balanchine, the visionary her in battement tendu to create a teacher and choreographer streamlined movement.” who founded New York City Ballet. He emphasized the dierentiation of each nger and the roundedness of the 2 palm in this position.”

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5 “Katherine Pawlowski and I are 6 “I am reminding Amanda Stone 8 “The student here is Grace Furst. She 9 “I choreographed a new ballet, working on the shape of her hand to li her eye focus to match the is concentrating on keeping her right Meadows Serenade, for the SMU and ngers.” height of her leg. We are both hip back as she reaches her right heel students earlier in the semester. looking in the mirror to evaluate.” and foot away from her. You also see a They gave me this hoodie as a Merce Cunningham quote I’d written on thank-you gi. It's been such a 7 “Small jumps en masse” the white board weeks before: ‘The only delight to teach these dancers. way to do it is to do it.’” They have worked with diligence and intelligence.”

ARTDESK 17 When asked to summarize their efforts in animal welfare in three words, Jamee Suarez says, “Challenging. Rewarding. Jamee Suarez and Robin Suarez Unfinished. And inspiring.” Jamee and her sister, Robin Suarez, will be recognized with the 2021 Kirkpatrick KRKPATRCK HONOR FOR AN MAL WELLBENG Honor for Animal Wellbeing at the triennial ANIMAL Conference on August 27–28, 2021, in Oklahoma City. e Tulsa-based sisters formed the Oklahoma Alliance for Animals in 2004 and, every day since, have dedicated their efforts to mitigating pet homelessness, abuse, and neglect. e sisters have built a respected, innovative, and far-reaching organization that helps animals across the state, all while keeping it a mostly volunteer-run operation. Photograph by Shevaun Williams In as many words, we say, “ank you, from us all.” animalallianceok.org | theanimalconference.com

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CALLNG ALL CRTTERS: Photographer Shevaun Williams and studio assistants Paige Williams and Jessica Morgan researched and prepared for four weeks to bring nineteen animals into the studio on May 6, 2021. Chickens Ruby and Black Pearl and comfort dog Sledge belong to Aubin Lunsford. Blue Heeler puppy D’jango and BB Prince, a Golden Retriever mix, appear courtesy of Jennifer Kloeppel and Boys Town Ranch in Edmond, Oklahoma. Cats Servo and Rudi belong to Paige Williams. Sebastian the owl and Hail the red-tailed hawk arrived in the care of Dennis Smith with Raptor’s Keep in Edmond, Oklahoma. Juliette the turkey and Penelope the dairy cow came from Lisa Carpenter at 4C Farms. Goats Lillie and Boo Who and Boots the rabbit are with Teresa Norton. Rocky the miniature horse and Corky the piglet are with Autumn Bellinger and Saving Grace Mini Rescue Farm. Bearded dragon Zeppelin arrived thanks to Kate Schmidt. Hair and makeup by Teresa Luz; behind-the-scenes video by Blake Studdard; technical support by Adobe Photoshop, and Great Plains scenic backdrop painted by Lauren Rosenfelt. The talent was perfectly behaved; many thanks to all for their good humor and dedication to animals.

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Jose Davila and Benito | Guadalajara, MX

Jen Lewin (far right) with Brooklyn and the studio team | New York, NY Paloma Varga Weisz and Ponti | Düsseldorf, DE

Betty Tompkins with Emmy (and her husband Bill) | Pleasant Mount, PA J Morrison and Bambino | New York, NY Eileen Myles and Honey | Marfa, TX

“ AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big and it Mountain Time doesn’t matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is.” —Misty Copeland

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Jason Willaford and Finn | Dallas, TX

Laurie Simmons and Penny | Cornwall, CT Gabrielle Korn with Kimberly and Venus | New York, NY Pets & THEIR PEOPLE 021 Season of the Animal

An artist’s tools are crucial to creative output—a bookshelf full of inspiration, a jar of favorite paintbrushes, the perfect chair for writing—and that includes companion animals, too. When asked to share their furry friends with ArtDesk, these artists were more than happy to send snaps of everyday life where their animals and art coexist. This summer, two events will celebrate animal and the arts: ArtDesk’s Pooch Parade at the Green Box Arts Festival, in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, July 3, 2021; and Kirkpatrick Foundation’s triennial ANMAL Conference, August 27 and 28, at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. Ed Ruscha and Dexter | Venice, CA Clint Stone and Mike Ditka | Oklahoma City, OK greenboxarts.org | theanimalconference.com

This summer, twelve dancers from American Ballet Theatre will settle in for a four-week residency to create a new work with choreographer Silas Farley. This ballet will premiere at the festival. Founded in 1931, ABT has performed in 481 Mountain Time cities in 45 countries across the world to 300,000 audience members annually.

ARTDESK 21 Lighting the Ground Up On April 24, 2021, Historic Green Mountain Falls Foundation and Green Box leaders and Green Mountain Falls community members gathered for the groundbreaking of a new Skyspace by James Turrell. This will be the rst permanent Skyspace in Colorado and the rst to be installed onto the side of a mountain. The structure will be built with natural stones, wood, and other materials specic to the region as the artist and Green Box team work to create harmony between the art experience and its natural setting. The Skyspace, to be titled by Turrell upon completion, will open later this year. Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Mayor Jane Newberry, town trustees Katharine Guthrie and Margaret Peterson, Christian Keesee, Jesse Stroope, and Larry Keigwin break ground on the Turrell Skyspace; Chris Walters kicked o¢ the event with a trumpet performance; Keesee addressing local residents at the site of the future Skyspace; Green Box Arts artists-in-residence Irby Pace, Antonina Skobina, and Denys Drozdyuk

Derby Day Dancers and arts patrons ushered in springtime with a Kentucky Derby Day fundraiser hosted by Nate and Kristin Richter for scholarships to the Oklahoma International Dance Festival.

FROM LEFT: Meg DeGreve and Kristin Richter; Errick Smith and Kayla Witthus, Emily and Jacob Ham; Micah Bullard and Carlie Preskitt of Hartel Dance Group.

Washington, DC Carrying the message of kindness to animals, Kirkpatrick Foundation’s chairman Christian Keesee, executive director Louisa McCune, and intern Tyler Kirkpatrick visited several leaders in Washington, DC in May 2021. The Oklahoma City-based foundation, started in 1955 by John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick, has several programs, including an education initiative called Safe & Humane, which aims to make Oklahoma a safe and humane place to be an animal. Washington, DC

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Ngodup Tsering, Louisa McCune, and Christian Keesee; Keesee, Tyler Kirkpatrick, McCune, and Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies director Jennifer Duncan; Kirkpatrick, Senator John Boozman of Arkansas, McCune, Keesee, and Marty Irby; Irby, Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, McCune, Kirkpatrick, and Keesee

22 ARTDESK SU MMER Contributors SHEVAN WLLAMS | A college summer-session with a borrowed 35mm camera in Paris began Shevaun Williams’ love a¢ air with travel and photography. As anyone who knows her work can attest, preparation informs her process. “I got the call almost four weeks out and the ball started rolling,” says Williams her photograph on page 18. “Concept, conversations, and research lasted for about ten days and the legwork for about two weeks. It took four days to perfect the scene painting. Casting the handlers and animals took a couple of weeks, and we found the last animal the day of the shoot! Sourcing the right props, nal set design, lighting for a full day, plus a few sleepless nights—it was glorious to see it come together.” @shevyvision

STEVEN VSNEA | Steven Visneau, a lifestyle, ne art, and portrait photographer in Dallas, has worked with a wide range of clients, from Neiman Marcus, Tommy John, and JC Penney to Stetson and Marriott Hotels. Visneau is also a musician and culture critic. From New York but based in Dallas, Visneau says he spends most of his working hours on the road. @stevenvisneauphotography

CHRISTAN KEESEE | Publisher of ArtDesk and chairman of the foundation that publishes ArtDesk, Christian Keesee is an international contemporary art leader. For more than forty years, he has traveled the world, collecting artworks and advocating passionately for arts education. Co-founder of Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and Green Box, he August 27 and 28, 2021 serves on the board of the Frick Collection and American Ballet Theatre and received the Oklahoma Governor’s Arts Award in 2012. Dossier (page 07) is his new, every-issue A Gathering for Animals ArtDesk feature. @christian.keesee The third triennial ANIMAL Conference will be held in Oklahoma City on August 27 and 28, 2021, at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. The two-day event brings together advocates, academics, experts, journalists, philanthropists, and community leaders from across the United States and Oklahoma to discuss animal issues of all kinds. Hosted by Kirkpatrick Foundation, con rmed speakers include Michael J. Blackwell, assistant surgeon general and director, Program for Pet Health Equity; Rachel Dreskin, chief executive o® cer, Plant Based Foods Association; Drew Edmondson, former Oklahoma Attorney General; Judge Amanda Max eld Green, lead prosecutor in the Joe Exotic case; Brian Hare, author of The Genius of Dogs and co- founder of Dognition; John Herrington, retired United States Naval Aviator, engineer and former NASA astronaut; Casey McLean, executive director and veterinary nurse, Sealife Response + Publisher ...... Christian Keesee Rehab + Research; Wayne Pacelle, president of The Center for a Humane Economy; Carlos Risco, Editor in Chief ...... Louisa McCune dean of the Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine; Nancy Snow, philosopher Dance Editor ...... Larry Keigwin and professor at the University of Oklahoma; Philip Tedeschi, executive director, the Institute Managing Editor ...... Alana Ruiz de la Peña for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver; and a repeat visit from the Lutheran Art Director ...... Steven Walker Church Charities K-9 Comfort Dogs. To register, visit theanimalconference.com Contributing Editor ...... Kelly Rogers

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ARTDESK 23 AT WORK | His Holiness the Dalai Lama N JAMPHEL N VEN TENZ VEN

The Wish-Fulfilling Ocean of Wisdom THE BELOVED SP RTAL LEADER for home of the Tibetan government-in-exile people or one country, but for all sentient approximately 500 million Buddhists since 1959. His teachings are frequent, beings. People can follow this path around the world, His Holiness the Dalai typically in a live webcast using the latest according to their ability and inclination. I, Lama is the chosen embodiment of the in social media (including Facebook), and for instance, started my Buddhist education prior thirteen Dalai Lamas and a direct take place in this parlor beset with cameras, as a child and although I am now nearly link to the “Enlightened One,” the Buddha. television monitors, and an overow of eighty-six years old, I am still learning. His Holiness was born in Tibet in 1935 Tibetan tangkas (paintings) and traditional Therefore, whenever I can, I encourage and, aer a series of reincarnation tests oerings such as fruit, owers, and muns. Buddhists I meet to be twenty-rst century by sanctioned Buddhist search teams In his recent message to Buddhists the Buddhists, to discover what the teaching (disguised as traders), he was conrmed and world over, in May 2021—celebrating really means and to put it into eect. This enthroned as the Dalai Lama at four-and- the Buddha’s birthday—the Dalai Lama entails listening and reading, thinking a-half years old. The Dalai Lama spends (translated as “Ocean” and “Wisdom”) about what you have heard and read and nearly all of his time at Namgyal Monastery, wrote: “The Buddha’s teaching is essentially making yourself deeply familiar with it.” his personal residence in Dharamsala, India, practical. It is not just for one group of —LOSA McCNE

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Green Mountain Falls, Colorado 2021 Green Box Arts Festival Monday, June 21 to Sunday, July 11

Due to limited capacity and state and local Red Over Blue (2021) by Cat Balco is on Two art walks this summer: July 4 and 11 safety guidelines, registration is required view at the Lake Street display this summer Art walks are a great way to see and learn for many performances, classes, camps, in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. about all the outdoor art in town! events, and conversations.

WED / JUNE 23 SAT / JUNE 26 SAT / JULY 3 WED / JULY 7 SAT / JULY 10

ARTDESK CONVERSATION ARTDESK CONVERSATION ARTDESK CONVERSATION ASTRONOMY & S’MORES NATURE HIKE (MODERATE) JIM RAUGHTON BOB BLACKBURN MAYOR’S FORUM 9–10:30 p.m. TURRELL TRAIL 12–1 p.m. / LUNCH PROVIDED 12–1 p.m. / LUNCH PROVIDED 12–1 p.m. / LUNCH PROVIDED Astronomy: Lakeview 9–10 a.m. Church in the Wildwood Church in the Wildwood Church in the Wildwood Terrace Theater Aspen Grove & Tribute Walk S’mores: The Outlook Lodge AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE ARTDESK’S POOCH PARADE ARTDESK CONVERSATION FRI / JUNE 25 MATINEE PERFORMANCE 1:30–3 p.m. THE ART OF JAMES TURRELL 2–3 p.m. Green Box Farm Stand FRI / JULY 9 12–1 p.m. / LUNCH PROVIDED ARTDESK CONVERSATION Bear Crossing Studio Church in the Wildwood SILAS FARLEY & AMERICAN ARTDESK CONVERSATION BALLET THEATRE AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE SUN / JULY 4 VICKY GREGOR SKYSPACE DEDICATION 12–1 p.m. / LUNCH PROVIDED EVENING PERFORMANCE 12–1 p.m. / LUNCH PROVIDED 1:30–2:30 p.m. Church in the Wildwood 7–8 p.m. ART WALK WITH Church in the Wildwood Green Box Farm Stand Bear Crossing Studio CAT BALCO (EASY) AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE 8–9 a.m. FRIDAY FILM NIGH BLOCK PARTY CONCERT WITH MATINEE PERFORMANCE Aspen Grove & Tribute Walk BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE THE REMINDERS 2–3 p.m. SUN / JUNE 27 SUNDANCE KID 7–8:30 p.m. Bear Crossing Studio NATURE HIKE (MODERATE) 8–10 p.m. Green Box Farm Stand SUNDAY SING-ALONG H.B. WALLACE Green Box Farm Stand FRIDAY FILM NIGHT WITH COLORADO SPRINGS 8–10 a.m. AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL CONSERVATORY Aspen Grove & Tribute Walk SUN / JULY 11 GOES WEST 7:30–8:30 p.m. 8–10 p.m. Lakeview Terrace Theater NATURE HIKE (ADVANCED) ART WALK WITH JULIE Green Box Farm Stand PITTMAN TRAIL MAGUIRE (EASY) 8–10 a.m. 8–9 a.m. FRI / JULY 2 Aspen Grove & Tribute Walk Aspen Grove & Tribute Walk

FRIDAY FILM NIGHT ANNUAL 4TH OF JULY BLOCK SUNDAY SING-ALONG WITH BEST IN SHOW PARTY WITH COLLECTIVE COLORADO SPRINGS 8–10 p.m. GROOVE CONSERVATORY Green Box Farm Stand 7–9 p.m. 7:30–8:30 p.m. Green Box Farm Stand Lakeview Terrace Theater

Green Box encourages artists, residents, contemporary arts experiences. We engage and visitors to participate in the creative arts community through performances, exhibitions, surrounded by the natural beauty of Green education, conversations, celebrations, and Mountain Falls, Colorado. The Green Box an artist-in-residence program. Green Box is Arts Festival is well into its second decade committed to fostering creative expression at of creating and presenting extraordinary the highest level.

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All ABT performances require tickets. For more information, please visit greenboxarts.org